WASHINGTON (AP).- A stolen painting by French Impressionist Edgar Degas was formally returned to France at the residence of the French ambassador to the United States on Friday after it surfaced at an auction in New York. The small painting “Blanchisse…
Anonymous Art Collector Purchases Peter Lik’s New England River Photo, ‘One,’ For $1 Million
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Calling it “the best shot I have taken in my lifetime,” world-renowned photographer Peter Lik has sold his first million-dollar photograph, which he calls One: a fleetingly beautiful nature shot captured on the banks of the Androscogg…
Maximilien Luce Retrospective at Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny
GIVERNY.- Covering Luce’s career, the exhibition brings together around 80 works and features some of the most significant examples of Neo-impressionist painting. Maximilien Luce (1858-1941) was born in Paris to an artisan’s family. He worked…
Maximilien Luce, Neo-Impressionist. A Retrospective at Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny
GIVERNY.- Covering Luce’s career, the exhibition brings together around 80 works and features some of the most significant examples of Neo-impressionist painting. Maximilien Luce (1858-1941) was born in Paris to an artisan’s family. He worked…
Prison Term for Monet Painting Thief in Poland
WARSAW (AP).- A court spokeswoman in western Poland says a man convicted in the theft of a Claude Monet painting valued at $7 million (euro 5.7 million) has been handed a three-year prison term. Agnieszka Weichert-Urban said that the regional court in …
Kunsthaus Zürich Presents Work by Georges Seurat One of the Fathers of Modern Art
ZURICH.- Under the heading ‘Figure in Space’, the
Kunsthaus Zürich presents work by one of the fathers of modern art, Georges
Seurat, from 2 October 2009 until 17 January 2010. A colleague of Paul Cézanne
and Vincent van Gogh’s, Seurat b…
Impressionist Landscapes on View at the Portland Museum of Art
PORTLAND, MAINE – The Portland Museum of Art presents an in-depth study of Impressionist landscape painting. Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism is an exhibition of more than 40 masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The exhi…